William Morris - V&A Pattern Dates:1.1.2050-1.1.2999William Morris by Linda Parry is part of a new series celebrating the V&A's pre-eminent status as a source of inspiration for designers. Featuring some of the museum's most enduing and popular patterns, William Morris is one of four new titles in the V&A Pattern series which also includes Digital Pioneers, Indian Florals and The Fifties. The pocket-sized books make attractive and collectable gifts but are also a valuable source of ideas for designers of all kinds.
Commercial designers looking to license patterns can use these books as a starting point for research. Complete with a free CD of the images inside - to be redrawn or reworked.

20th Century CeramicsDates:1.1.2050-1.1.2999Many of the surveys to date have discussed factories or potters or artists as if they were completely disassociated from the times in which they were living, and as if they were completely unaware of their contemporaries. Rather than producing a survey in which only a shooting gallery of iconic pots or famous artists are presented I have tried to reveal the contexts in which these ceramics were made and why they were made.'
Anyone concerned with art and creativity in the modern era, including schools, art colleges and collectors, will be grateful for this introduction to one of the most popular and challenging art forms of our time. The profusely illustrated book charts the development of ceramics in the modern age, from Art Nouveau, Art Deco, the Bauhaus and Futurism, through Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Performance, to Land Art and
Installation Art.
There are clear introductions to pioneering techniques, glazes and approaches, in context and in practice, from Orientalism and colour theory to Modernism, Postmodernism and the profuse diversity of the end of the twentieth century.
A practising potter and writer of international note, Edmund de Waal examines the increasing cross-fertilization between ceramics and other disciplnes, such as painting, sculpture and architecture, and provides detailed and compelling analysis of individual pieces in context.
21.00 x 15.00 cm
Paperback
224pp
178 Illustrations, 77 in colour
First published 2003

London

20th Century Jewelry - The Complete SourcebookDates:1.1.2050-1.1.2999The most comprehensive and detailed history and sourcebook of twentieth-century jewelry ever published
John Peacock charts the development of every kind and style of twentieth-century jewelry for both women and men: earrings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets, and bangles, brooches, rings, buckles and clasps, dress clips, hair and hat ornaments, watches, cufflinks, tiepins. . . Precious jewelry, costume and novelty jewelry are all included, and every style from Art Nouveau to Pop Art and retro.
John Peacock’s research, using not only paintings and photographs, but also the jewelry itself, has allowed him to reproduce in meticulous detail a host of representative pieces from every year of the century. All the great twentieth-century designers and houses are featured – among them Lalique, Cartier, Chaumet, Georg Jensen, Fulco di Verdura, Schlumberger, Miriam Haskell, Harry Winston, Van Cleef & Arpels and Tiffany & Co. – as well as the mass-produced jewelry their designs inspired.
The pictures are accompanied by full descriptions, including details of materials, stones, designs, fastenings, mounts and surrounds.
An invaluable reference section includes a time chart summarizing the development of jewelry through the century, biographies of the leading international jewellers, and a concise bibliography.
This encyclopaedic survey is destined to become the unrivalled reference work in its field, indispensable to any jewelry enthusiast, designer, student or collector.
32.00 x 24.00 cm
Hardback
144pp
Over 1500 illustrations in colour
First published 2002

Bruxelles

A Gallery of Creators Dates:1.9.2050-1.1.2999A Gallery of Creators is a small encyclopaedia of the leading figures who created Modernisme in Barcelona. Architects, painters, sculptors, writers, cabinet makers, graphic artists, and also developers, patrons, financiers, etc., all of them people who, through their efforts and with their passion for creating a “new art”, were responsible for Barcelona’s being regarded today as the world capital of Modernisme.
This book is an ideal complement to the Barcelona Modernisme Route guidebook, an indispensable tool for getting to know and understanding the cultural and artistic movement that characterised Catalonia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
240pp., 15 x 21cms, colour and black and white illustrations. Text in Catalan, Spanish, English, French. Available in paperback / €12
Further information at: www.rutadelmodernisme.com

Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art NouveauDates:1.1.2050-1.1.2999Alphonse Mucha (1890-1939) was one of the most important decorative artists in Paris at the turn of the century. His sensual female portraits with their elaborate borders?le style Mucha?embody the essence of Art Nouveau. The Mucha family and the Mucha Foundation have put together a touring exhibition of Mucha's work, and this is the companion volume. Though numerous works on Mucha have appeared in the past few decades, none have been as exhaustive as this illustrated group of essays by noted European experts. The full-scale treatment covers paintings, decorative panels, pastels, drawings, photographs, jewelry, and advertisements as well as numerous book and magazine illustrations. The essays elucidate Mucha's political activities in Czechoslovakia, which spawned the enormous murals "The Slav Epic"; his association with the actress Sarah Bernhardt; and the impact of American patronage on his later work. This lavish homage may prove to be the most important study of an amazing and prolific artist. Highly recommended.?Joseph C. Hewgley, Nashville P.L., Antioch
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
344 pages

London

An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration - From Pompeii to Art NouveauDates:1.1.2050-1.1.2999The appeal of this extraordinary book lies in its obsession with the details of the domestic interior, borne out in a wonderfully rich collection of pictures.
These charming paintings and water-colours, mostly dating from 1770 to 1860 and coming from all over Europe, Russia and America, record with faithful accuracy the shape of a room, the pattern of a carpet, the furniture, pictures, fabrics and wall coverings, the hang of the curtains.
The pictures find their place in a complete survey of domestic – and some more palatial – interiors portrayed in art from the ancient world to the late 19th century, and including works by Vermeer, Hogarth, Dürer, Degas and Vuillard.
The text goes beyond scholarly commentary to present an evolving picture of men and women in relation to domestic surroundings, full of human interest, wit and wide-ranging cultural references.
30.30 x 23.00 cm
Hardback
396pp
400 Illustrations, 64 in colour
First published 1982